Roberts: Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure. We are honored by your presence.Darth Vader: You may dispense with the pleasantries, Wing Commander. I am here to put you back on schedule.Roberts: I assure you, Lord Vader, my men are working as fast they can.Vader: Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.Roberts: I tell you that this Star Citizen will be operational as planned.Vader: The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.Roberts: But he asks the impossible. I need more Space Hookers.Vader: Then perhaps you can tell him when he arrives.Roberts: [alarmed] The Emperor's coming here?Vader: That is correct, Wing Commander, and he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.Roberts: We shall double our efforts. And our pay.Vader: I hope so, Wing Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as gullible as I am.

They reckon that the sun will die five or so billion years from now, so whether "Scam Citizen: Squandering 142 million" will ever see the light of day is anyone's guess. But please don't let it be Roberts', as he'll try to monetize it.

It's interesting how little time of that two-minute long video is spent actually displaying the game, perhaps in a vain effort to disguise how bland it really is. In my case, though, they aren't exactly preaching to the converted, as I find the notion of chasing an inflatable spheroid about as appealing as watching the grass on a muddy field grow.

"A sentient, massive entity which threatened Earth in 2271, en route to find its "Creator." In doing so, W'Cer destroyed anything it encountered by digitizing it for its memory chamber.Generating a power field "cloud" about itself of over 22 AUs in diameter, the entity had gained sentience after unknown aliens repaired the old Earth video game that formed its core — Wing Commander IV, whose name in corrupted English gave the sentience its name.The entity, which viewed organic lifeforms as carbon-based units "investing" in starships, later joined with Starfleet's Lt. Ilia and Cmdr. Chris Roberts and evolved into a higher, yet unknown lifeform."

SFanderson wrote on Apr 16, 2017, 16:42:I can't help but laugh every time I see Star Citizen on blues. The people here are an overwhelming minority with regards to their views on this game. Like seriously, this is the Westboro Baptist Church of the gaming community.

Neat video, but I think the roles are slightly skew whiff, as we're not the ones who are likely to end up homeless as a result of spunking money on a nebulous, sprawling, never-to-see-the-light-of-day space train wreck.

WaltC wrote on Apr 16, 2017, 08:18:Wouldn't it be wonderful if all of the armchair RSI financial critics and prognosticators of Star Citizen doom & gloom would apply the same hypercritical yardstick to the runaway US federal government in terms of the long-running deficit-spending con it's been running on the American people for the last 50 years (at least)? Hallelujah!...;) You bet it would be a refreshing change!

Chris Roberts: "No one has ever attempted to build a game as ambitious as Star Citizen and I doubt any publisher would have the patience or stamina that it requires to build something that breaks molds the way Star Citizen does."

Classic Chris Roberts. He now promises Star Citizen can break molds.

Effectively, he's a calling it a big, wobbly amorphous jelly, without form or function.

Edit: Does anyone have a link to a graph, with decades elapsed on the x-axis and dollars spunked on the y-axis to see if funding is tailing off for this farce?

It's worse than that, they actually burn their equipment at the end of the game! I believe it was the great Hendrix himself who witnessed such incendiary behaviour, subsequently being inspired to burn his own 'bat' after each music match that he played.

In the year 2012, Kickstarter launched one of the last of America's deep wallet probes. Aboard this compact starship sim a lone astronaut, Captain Chris "Fast Buck" Roberts, was to experience comical forces beyond all comprehension. In a freak mishap, his hooker-and-blow-support systems were overloaded by cash injections beyond imagination. Star Citizen was blown out of its plan trajectory into a developmental orbit 1,000 times more vast, an orbit which was to return "Fast Buck" Roberts to earth 500 years later. *cue music*